Since their first release on Estrus Records a couple years back, this band has put out 22 singles, six full-length albums, and a lot of hardcore, asskicking surf rock. Their new record, Experiment Zero, only further proves that they're the band of the future.

These 14 new songs hang ten, solar star-power style. For the entire duration of the album, I was continually hypnotized by the delicious, low-fidelity UFO noises and blaring, warbling guitars. The opening kicker, "Television Fission," stereo- spreads its way into your sub-conscious and you've had it; you're hooked until the whammybar action of the final track, "Principals Unknown," finally snaps you out of it.

A cover of the Talking Heads' tune "Television Man" is included, as are several sci-fi movie sound bytes which only add to the album's charm. It's a record you simply can't go wrong with. Long live the Moog- enhanced surf-rock of Man... or Astro-Man.

-Ryan Schreiber